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‖ herenach Anglo-Irish.|ˈhɛrənax|
Also 7 herenagh, herinach, 9 erenach.
[Corruption of Irish airchinneach, OIr. airchinnich chief man, principal, prince, leader, f. ar-, air- over + cenn, ceann head; cogn. with Welsh arbennig (:—Proto-Celtic *(p)arei-qennikos, Stokes).]
In the ancient Irish Church, A lay superintendent of church lands; the hereditary warden of the church.
1607Davies 1st Let. to Earl Salisb. (1787) 250 For the Herinach, there are few parishes of any compass in extent, where there is not an Herinach. Ibid. 251 The founder gave the land to some clerk not being in orders, and to his heirs for ever, with this intent; that he should keep the church clean and well repaired, keep hospitality, and giue alms to the poor for the soul's health of the founder. This man and his heirs had the name of Erenach. 1609in Reeves Eccl. Antiq. (1847) 209 The Corbe..hath sometime under him severall herenaghes. 1727Cowell's Interpr., Herenach, an Archdeacon. 1848–51O'Donovan Four Masters a.d. 601 note, Irish Airchinneach, i.e. the hereditary warden of the church, usually anglicised Erenach or Herenagh. 1864McLauchlan Early Scot. Ch. xx. (1885) 292 The lands were usually farmed to a certain individual or family of the kin who were called herenachs.
Hence ˈherenachy, the office of a herenach.
1609in Reeves Eccl. Antiq. (1847) 161 But hold their herenaghie free for ever. |